Transportation Management with SAP LES

Organizational structures in the SAP system allow you to map the organization
of your enterprise. In this chapter, you’ll learn which structures are
needed for mapping the business processes in shipping and transportation.
You will also find out about other structures of upstream and downstream
process steps.
2 Organizational Structures in Logistics
Business application programs, regardless of whether they have been developed
with SAP software or by another software company, have to map the processes in
your enterprise. However, your enterprise consists of different structures, which
also have to be reflected in the software used. Very often, the same processes (such
as shipping) are handled differently depending on their structure. For instance,
shipping to wholesalers (complete loads, cross-docking, etc.) is different from
shipp ing to small retailers (many small delivery quantities in a single shipment).
You can find these structures in all areas of your enterprise. However, there are
certain differences: the structure of the Shipping department, for example, is
completely different from the structure of the Financial Accounting department.
Despite this, shipping must also be reflected in financial accounting because shipping
not only generates a quantity flow, but also a value flow. Ultimately, all structures
in your enterprise must be coordinated so that processes can run uninterrupted
from start to finish.
This chapter introduces the structures that have a direct or indirect influence on
the shipping and transportation process. These include the logistic organizational
structures on the one hand, and the structure in your sales organization (upstream
processes) and in your warehouse (interim processes) on the other.
2.1 Logistic Organizational Structures
Each enterprise has its own specific organizational structures. In the SAP system,
these have to be mapped in a client to optimize business processes.
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